Nonsense. [He shakes his head.] You earned the title, did you not? It would be disrespectful not to use it -- Major.
[Inaccurate, too informal for a first meeting -- there are all sorts of reasons not to skip the title and jump to Margaret right away, and one of them is lingering stubbornness that has not quite gone away, even in his state.
The door to his house is unlocked, and the inside is untidy, but not thoroughly destroyed -- Sherlock hasn't had the time to go through it like a tornado. Give him a few weeks.]
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[Inaccurate, too informal for a first meeting -- there are all sorts of reasons not to skip the title and jump to Margaret right away, and one of them is lingering stubbornness that has not quite gone away, even in his state.
The door to his house is unlocked, and the inside is untidy, but not thoroughly destroyed -- Sherlock hasn't had the time to go through it like a tornado. Give him a few weeks.]